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Creolization as cultural creativity /

This volume explores the expressive forms and performances that come into being when cultures encounter one another. Creolisation is presented as a powerful marker of identity in the post-colonial creole societies of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the southwest Indian Ocean region, as well as a u...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Baron, Robert A., Cara, Ana C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Creolization as cultural creativity / Robert Baron and Ana C. Cara
  • Metaphors of incommensurability / John F. Szwed
  • Monde Creóle : the cultural world of French Louisiana Creoles and the creolization of world cultures / Nick Spitzer
  • Creolization, Nam, absent loved ones, watchers, and serious play with "toys" / Grey Gundaker
  • Ritual piracy : or creolization with an attitude / Raquel Romberg
  • Africa's Creole drum : the gumbe as vector and signifier of trans-African creolization / Kenneth Bilby
  • Techniques of creolization / Lee Haring
  • Creole talk : the poetics and politics of Argentine verbal art / Ana C. Cara
  • Villes, poème : the postwar routes of Caribbean creolization / J. Michael Dash
  • Amalgams and mosaics, syncretisms and reinterpretations : reading Herskovits and contemporary creolists for metaphors of creolization / Robert Baron
  • About face : rethinking creolization / Roger D. Abrahams.